After endless hours in mirc, and assisted by my engineer father, I have chosen my path.
I have allways wanted to write GOOD game, not some crappy text adventure in qbasic.

And many ppl have told that C++ is best suited for software programming, when C is more common in system programming (unix). I believe I can change some crappy parameters by now, if I want.
I don't actually have any use for that kind of programming (yet).

I loaned C++ programming manual with little over 800(!) sides, that oughta help me to start.

I just want to create my very own programs!!!

When learning C++ it's much easier when you already know C. Without C, C++ is hard, especially when most manual start OO programming quickly not telling much about the basis.

LOL. cool. Try C++ for Dummies. Its a great book. (No offense, I don't think you're a dummy, but its the name of the book)

I know some C already.

My most impressive self programmed feat in C is program called Salasana (Password) made by me that starts every time I go to my own home folder.
It asks password 3 times, if given incorrectly all three times, it wont let me in.

Trying to hack it so that it will give command "shutdown -h now" to kernel if given incorrectly.

It also prints "Welcome to Matrix" if given correctly

Your program sounds dangerous to me. In order for you to have the program shutdown the system you will have to either set your program to be setuid root or 'shutdown' to be setuid root. You could have someone shutting down your machine from anywhere.
Anyway don't you have to log into your box only to be asked for the same password or a different password? If it's a different password, how do you store it?

I can use shutdown as a normal user...

~Progster

you can use <stdlib.h> and use the system("insertfunctionhere");
for example:
system("shutdown -h now");
would tell the program to shut down the computer. I hope that this helps you, and good luck with c++.

Some people react to discussions of C and C++ as if they are very different, yet actually C++ is a superset of C. Prior to C++ being standardized C++ was implemented using C pre-processor macros. For the experienced C++ programmer there are differences but for a beginner the differences are insignificant except that C++ just has more.

I suggest learning C++ first.

Now, after day 11 on my book (yes, I've loaned it allmost month ago. Just too beautiful weather, too much friends and too much beer to hang inside.) I've finally finished my VERY FIRST GAME!!!!
Just simple text-adventure that prints something like "You see a well." then gives you choices like "a: Drink from it b: jump there c: blast it to oblivion d: run in panic!". Then you press some button and see concequenses!
I've already played it 10++ times over and over! It's sooooo good!

Congratulations! But beware: when you start coding, it's hard to stop..

hi there !!
i'm new to pragramming
i want some useful books to c++

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well... buy some...

1. Bjarne Stroustrup - The C++ Programming Language, 3rd edition
a MUST, since it's *the* reference to the language.

2. Al Stevens & Clayton Walnum: Standard C++ Bible
For absolute beginners, is concise, not indepth and
has a few flaws :)

Cheers,
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